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From the moon, to the stars While lingering in the universe We got to know each other

- NU’EST Daybreak

hi astro’s on and i’m cryign eunwoo what are u wearing

When Eunwoo turns 7, his parents sit him down and tell him about dreams

You'll dream of someone special from now on, they say, someone who'll be your best friend and someone you'll want to spend the rest of your life with

Eunwoo blinking

Eunwoo's dad adding thoughtfully that he might not dream of anyone yet though, if his soulmate is younger

Eunwoo's dad dreamt about his mum when he was ten, for example, because his mum was three years his junior

Eunwoo nodding, because MJ's told him about meeting Jinjin in his dreams only when MJ was 9

But anyways, his mum continues, even if you dream about them you might not meet each other quite yet

His dad nodding and explaining that unless you already know the person or unless you live close enough to visit, usually soulmates wait until they're older and more able to move around

Some people don't remember their dreams anyway, so even if you tell each other your addresses it isn't a guarantee you're able to visit each other instantly, she explains

And anyway you already meet each other in your dreams every night, his father says, and if you choose to meet too early and give up your nightly dreams for measly once-a-month meetings, it might not be worth it

Eunwoo secretly thinking he'd like to meet them early anyway

And so the night of March 30th, 2004, little Eunwoo pulls the covers over his head and wiggles excitedly and waits for sleep to come

And wakes up the next morning, mildly disappointed

Because all he's dreamt about was a wild fish

And he really doesn't want his soulmate to be a wild fish, he tells his mother, poking at his rice

His teacher said fish generally had short life spans and where would he be if his soulmate decided to die before he met it?

Eunwoo's mum trying not to laugh at his logical explanation and telling him not to worry, his soulmate is probably human and not a wild fish

Eunwoo grumbling under his breath and stuffing more rice in his mouth

And so little Eunwoo pulls the covers over his head every night, wading into sleep and hoping he'll finally, finally meet his soulmate

MJ's already dreamt about a boy called Jinjin and literally would not shut up about him

MJ never shuts up in general but that's an entirely different matter

And he just wants to talk to MJ about someone instead of nodding and listening whenever MJ talks about Jinjin's smile

It's like a crinkle!! Like if you squished a fishball!!

And he wants to talk to someone every night the same way MJ does, sharing about his day and listening to them talk about stuff too

What's it like anyway? Do they just talk?

Do they just float in space or are they somewhere?

Do they get to eat?

What if they wanted to play soccer?

What if they get angry at each other? Do they just wake up?

Little Eunwoo burying his face in his pillow every night and begging his soulmate to turn seven quickly so he can answer all his questions

Until the night of January 26, 2005:

Eunwoo blinks

One moment ago he was literally in his bed, sleepily wrapped around a bolster

And now he's

Floating in space??

At least that's where he thinks he is

There are thousands of small twinkly lights and vague purple shadows

This is the first time he's dreamt of this space, Eunwoo figures, so he might as well explore

Eunwoo wobbling around space and trying to prod smol twinkly things

Until he collides into another warm body

Eunwoo turning around, apology ready on the tip of his tongue but

Eunwoo's eyes meeting with curious, cat-like eyes and chubby cheeks

Eunwoo: ??????? A human ??? In his dream?????

Bin, cheerily: "I'm Binnie!!"

Eunwoo: ?????????

Bin, peeking at Eunwoo: "are you my soulmate?"

And Eunwoo breaks out into a smile because

This is it, this is the person he's been wanting to meet for forever

"I've been waiting for you," Eunwoo says to the smol sunbeam, "Congrats on turning seven!"

Cue baby Binu floating around space

Bin: "and that's Oreo!!"

Eunwoo: "Oreo?"

Bin, scrunching up his nose: "I think?"

Eunwoo, nodding seriously because it makes sense that they'd name a star after a tasty biscuit

He'd name it after ice cream if he could, too

Bin, stopping and peering at Eunwoo: "what do you wanna be when you grow up?"

But before he can respond, Bin says, flopping onto his back and staring into more space: "I wanna be an astronaut!!"

Eunwoo: "Why?"

Binnie: "I wanna see the stars!"

Eunwoo: "Why?"

Binnie: "Because they're big and twinkly and I wanna see aliens!"

Eunwoo: "Why?"

Binnie, flopping onto his belly and chinhands-ing at Eunwoo: "Cos it's cool and I wanna protect Earth! What do you wanna do?"

Eunwoo staring at his hands and looking back up at Binnie squishing his cheeks and wondering if his dream of being a judge was too boring

Binnie, blinking expectantly:

Eunwoo: "A judge?"

Binnie, slightly squished: "Why!"

Eunwoo: "I wanna protect good people from bad people and put bad people away?"

Binnie, beaming at Eunwoo: "CoOooOoL!!!"

Eunwoo, blinking and blushing slightly:

Binnie: "So we both wanna protect people!"

Eunwoo, smiling a little: "Yeah?"

Binnie: "We're gon be protectors of the universe!"

And Eunwoo can't help it, Binnie's enthusiasm is so infectious he starts giggling and Binnie does too

Eunwoo: "Is this why we're meeting in space?"

Binnie, blinking: "I didn't choose it! It was just here when I fell asleep!"

Eunwoo, humming a little: "Well, I like it."

Binnie, wrapping his smol arms around Eunwoo's middle and beaming sleepily up at Eunwoo: "Yeah, and if we come here again tomorrow we can explore more!!"

(Eunwoo's heart seizing up then melting a little)

Eunwoo, carefully kissing Bin's forehead the same way he sees his dad kiss his mum in the morning

"Goodnight, Binnie."

"Night night, Noo."

Eunwoo, blinking a little at 'Noo' before drowsily smiling and drifting off into unconsciousness

(It's only when he wakes up the next morning that he realises he and Binnie have traded literally no information whatsoever, and so his Notebook on Soulmate remains empty except for: "Binnie, Jan 26, 2005: Space!")

Of course, the next time they meet, it's no longer in space

Well, not outer space, anyway

It's in an empty room on what feels like a space station, and Bin's hugging a gigantic teddy bear taller than he is

"I've named him Cloud," Binnie says, by way of greeting

Eunwoo bowing to Cloud and settling down next to Bin

"Where are we?"

"Dunno," Binnie says, snuggling into Cloud, “but there’s a window over there and I think you can see Earth?”

"No doors," Eunwoo muses, and gets to his feet to explore the room

"It's a dream," Binnie looks at Eunwoo prodding at the wall, "I think you get to make the room."

And almost as Bin finishes his sentence, the walls of the room start changing colours

Suddenly the walls are white and blue and Bin's legs are swinging off a blue platform

Bin squeaking and scrambling away from the edge, then squeaking again because he's ended up in a hammock

He has to steady himself and climb onto Cloud before peering down at Eunwoo

Eunwoo looking up at Bin and blinking

Hmm, overestimated the distance, he thinks

"You're too far away, Noo," Bin says

And suddenly a blue slide appears to Bin's right and Eunwoo laughs, "Slide down!"

Bin looks doubtful for a second, but Eunwoo moves to the end of the slide, hands outstretched and waiting for Bin

And so Binnie does, giggling and crashing into Eunwoo's waiting arms

Eunwoo surveying the room and declaring: "you know what's missing?"

Binnie, half a beat before Eunwoo says it: "a ball pit!!!!!!"

And they're surrounded by blue and white and navy balls and they're flailing around and tossing balls at each other and Binnie is laughing and beaming at Eunwoo and all Eunwoo can think about is how much he really, really likes making Binnie smile

Jan 27, 2005: Cool blue room - Binnie likes ball pits!

In another corner of space, this time one of Bin's creation:

Eunwoo: "I'm a Taurus I think? And an Ox?"

Bin, wiggling: "You're an Aries, Noo, and your star's there!"

Eunwoo: "where's yours then?"

Bin, spinning on his back and pointing at another patch of space

Bin also pointing out another star: "that's Rocky's!"

Eunwoo: "Rocky?"

Bin: "One of my friends from my neighbourhood!! He hasn't turned seven yet, so he hasn't had a soulmate dream so I tell him about you!"

Eunwoo, peeking at Bin: "what d'you say?"

Binnie, beaming: "it's a secret!!"

Feb 16, 2005: Bin's galaxy - I'm an Aries and Binnie's an Aquarius. Binnie's best friend is called Rocky!

In a small cafe, with doors opening onto strange red sand and a full view of a green moon:

Eunwoo: "why are there only two seats?"

Binnie, looking at Eunwoo like he's crazy: "there are only two of us!"

Eunwoo flushing and laughing

Binnie, pulling out random items from bright red cupboards: "what do you wanna eat for your birthday?"

Eunwoo, staring at frozen dumplings and uncooked rice grains and tubs of sauces and asking doubtfully: "can you cook?"

Binnie tugging Eunwoo closer to the counter: "if I can dream it being cooked, why not?"

Eunwoo: "can we even eat in dreams?"

Binnie, beaming: "we can try!!"

Binnie pulling out popcorn kernels: "popcorn?"

Eunwoo, doubtfully looking around for a stove (that seems to be made of glass) and for pans (that seem also to be made of glass)

Eunwoo, prodding a blender: "why is everything made of glass?"

Bin, juggling two eggs: "dunno?"

Eunwoo, mildly panicking because ??????? that'll make such a mess if Binnie drops them??? ???? ?

But also this is a dream so when Binnie does drop them it's into a glass pan over a glass stove with obviously invisible heating skills, because the egg cooks in no time

Bin carefully slicing the egg yolk out of the centre of the egg and delivering it to Eunwoo's plate

Eunwoo: ????

Bin, tossing another egg into the pan: "don't like egg yolks"

Eunwoo hesitantly holding a forkful of yolk to his mouth: "what if we can't eat and we wake up?"

Binnie pausing to consider this and tilting his head

Binnie bounding around the counter and pressing a sticky kiss to Eunwoo's cheek: "just in case then! Happy Birthday and g'night, Noo!"

Eunwoo flushing slightly and beaming at Bin: "here goes then!"

And as soon as the fork hits his mouth, Eunwoo blinks awake, moonlight streaming in through the curtains onto his bed

Eunwoo groggily reaching for a pencil and scribbling onto the nearest piece of paper to him

March 30, 2005: Bin's kitchen - Binnie hates egg yolks but loves popcorn. Also, we can't eat in dreams.

By a lake running yellow and strange purple bubbles that smell like freesia:

Bin: "and she just started scolding us for no reason!!! We weren't even making that much noise!!"

Eunwoo: nodding sympathetically: "perhaps she was just having a bad day?"

Bin, groaning and leaning on Eunwoo's shoulder: "she's just a witch and I hate her, Noo!!"

Eunwoo sliding his arm around Binnie's shoulder and laughing because: "are you sure you don't just hate math?"

Binnie glaring half-heartedly at Eunwoo before smiling reluctantly: "that's only half the problem!!"

June 8, 2005: A lake, somewhere - Binnie hates math and his math teacher?

In a garden of Eunwoo's imagination:

Binnie, prodding a pear blossom: "and this one?"

Eunwoo, scrunching up his nose: "friendship I think?"

Binnie, pointing at a smeraldo: "this one?"

Eunwoo: "something about the truth? I think?"

Binnie, poking a red rose: "what about this one?"

Eunwoo pretending to think really hard

Binnie, peeking at Eunwoo expectantly:

Eunwoo, finally: "it's a red rose, silly, it means love"

Binnie, nodding: "thought so"

Binnie, plucking it and stuffing it behind Eunwoo's ear and humming happily and moving into a gardenia: "and this one?"

Sept 27, 2005: Flower garden - I think my new favourite flower might be a red rose.

Eunwoo learns in school that you don't have to marry your soulmate

He frowns a bit, because the only pair of people he's actually confirmed to be soulmates are his parents and they're married

But his teacher taps gently on the board and calls the class to attention and explains that soulmates don't necessarily have to be romantic

They're meant to be your best friends, first and foremost; they're meant to be the person that understands you best and someone you'll want to spend time with

Sometimes they're your siblings, sometimes they're your best friends, sometimes they're someone you meet online

Taeyang pipes up and says there are a pair of twins two years up that he knows are soulmates

Dokyeom nods and tells everyone about the time his cousin went to his new job and his soulmate turned out to be his new boss, and the whole class erupts into giggles

When his teacher asks how many of them have dreamed of their soulmates before, more than half of those who've had their birthdays raise their hand

When his teacher asks again how many of them have met their soulmates, only Mingyu has his hand raised and everyone ooooohs at him

Mingyu sheepishly telling them that he had no idea what his soulmate was saying when he first met him because when they met in dreams they spoke the same language, but when they ran into each other at the airport, he spoke all in Chinese

But also that they're working on it everyday after school so please don't expect Mingyu to finish all his homework on time, please?

Their teacher, bursting out laughing: "I'll keep that in mind, Mingyu"

But also their teacher reminding them to not feel pressured when they first meet their soulmate (or even when they first dream of them), because everything works out in the end

Eunwoo swinging his legs and thinking hard about Binnie and his squeaking laugh and the way his eyes disappear when he smiles

He isn't sure yet, he thinks, but he feels like he'd quite like to marry Binnie

hi astro’s still on and jamming to their own songs and mj’s still the most talented artist i have ever seen i love him so much

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